The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu - 2016
The Three-Body Problem Series, Book 2



By: Cixin Liu
Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
Series: The Three-Body Problem Series, Book 2
Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 09-22-16
Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
Language: English
Publisher: Avid Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo



Winner of the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society.

Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival – any civilisation that reveals its location is prey.

Earth has. Now the predators are coming.

This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking listeners to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author.

In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion - in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike.

Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.

©2008 Cixin Liu (P)2016 Avid Audio

Critic reviews

"A milestone in Chinese science fiction." ( New York Times)

"The best kind of science fiction." (Kim Stanley Robinson)

"A marvellous mélange of awe-inspiring scientific concepts, clever plotting and quirky yet plausible characters, all conveyed in in a plain style capable of signalling hidden depths." (The Times)

"Vivid, imaginative and rooted in cutting-edge science ... Cixin stands at the top tier of speculative fiction in any language." (David Brin)





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